Mobile Burn Pit/Tank

[Industrial Toys]

I am looking for thoughts and ideas on yet another un-needed project.

I have this tank that I am going to use for manure storage. Just had a lid formed for it.

BUT, the other half, I am going to weld fork pockets to and use as a portable fire pit. We have burn restrictions, but they allow a "contained fire pit".

Already, my mind goes overboard. Stainless tubing to heat some water for the hot tub. Inlets or ducting for forced air.

What should I do for drainage? A bung or two in the bottom?

What would be best for injecting air?

Should it have grates?

Should one side be cut down further, to allow better heat radiation and viewing for personel? Or a heat shield in the back to reflect heat?

I just intend to burn household garbage and junk wood from the fence lines.

Thanks for any thoughts and input. Be sure to make it as complicated and expensive as possible? lol

 

[Chilliwack Murray]

Got to admire your enthusiasm.

Definitely want a drain or two and they can be used with a battery blower like Makita makes for getting it going. If you angle it toward the sitting side you have your cut down and your heat shield on the back. Small mesh grates would be good for containing large ash if burning garbage but personally I wouldn't cook on them after burning garbage. The grates would also be handy for laying your tubing coils on to heat water and if they aren't permanently attached they are easily removed for burning larger chunks and cleaning out.

I know you were trying to spend money but I'm Dutch, I can't help it.

CM

 

[Industrial Toys]

Thanks. Yes, angling it, mght be simple.

I was thinking, a roof might be in order. Thoughts on that would be appreciated.

We have a large burn pile some distance from the house. But having this a few yards from the covered porch of the house, might be a neat and novel change. Then take the eyesore, away when done. Even take it away on the forks to gather wood. Bring the pit to the wood, rather than the other way around.

I do have tons of ENTHUSIASM, and tons of unfinished projects. It's so much easier to dream than to create in real life.

The good thing is, that I can build this a bit at a time. However, had I welded the fork pockets on with the tank half, level, it would have been tough to angle it after that. Maybe a rotating system with servo motors? Remote Controlled of course with an AP! Bluetooth. NOT!

 

[Captain Dirty]

We have a large burn pile some distance from the house. But having this a few yards from the covered porch of the house, might be a neat and novel change. Then take the eyesore, away when done. Even take it away on the forks to gather wood. Bring the pit to the wood, rather than the other way around.

I do have tons of ENTHUSIASM, and tons of unfinished projects. It's so much easier to dream than to create in real life.

1. How have you resolved the tar/tar-impregnated debris problem? 2. What about the nylon/plastic bushings in the "bung" holes?

I would install a drain, straight and easy to clean. It will collect water that will mix with ash to form a paste. If you have uneven ground and can set it so it is pitched to drain, the frame and fork pockets can be "square"; if not a longitudinal pitch of a couple of inches would likely be unnoticeable. Make the fork pockets robust enough that you can roll the "trough" and add vertical studs on at least one side so the trough is stable when tipped on its side and the edge is above ground level so it doesn't dig up soil when righted. Then you could wash it out.
If you use it as an incinerator, a pyramidal or prism shaped screen may be desirable to keep embers from flying.
Adding a tuyere is a good idea. My son lay a 6" galvanized pipe in a trench to his burn pit and used a 5-amp 'bouncy house" blower. The fire burned hotter, and the smoke was less obnoxious.

Oh, the things I can think of for you to do.

 

[Industrial Toys]

GREAT! How about an "A" Roof, with screen in the gables? Yes, I am worried about embers and buring cardboard/paper heading for the bush, in dry conditions.

Fortunatley in this case, I messed up the geometry of my fork carrier, so the forks will not angle up very much, BUT angle down and around well beyond plumb, so if the pockets are pinned on to the forks, emptying this thing should be easy.

I too thought of a large pipe or tube in the bottom for air. A friend has access to a thirty or so foot long tubing laser, and I could have any number of holes burned into a tube, but, you still want positive pressure at the far end, so there must be some formula.

Oh, as for the horrible left over waste. I got six old, empty metal 5 gallon paint pails from a friend yesterday, to continue my clean up task, after the SUN makes an appearance again, to warm the contents.